Two popular formats to store structured data, that are also commonly used in bioinformatics analyses. — Bioinformatics and text files Most bioinformatics file formats are simple text files, a famous example being the FASTA format to store sequences. Historically, most file formats were proposed to ad hoc address a specific need, resulting in a fragmented universe of formats. Examples of famous bioinformatics formats are the FASTA and FASTQ for sequences…